3-Dvd Set-This two-DVD set features nearly six hours of amazing concert footage workshops and festival highlights from Australia’s Ultimate Drummer Weekend 2004. Disc 1 features concert performances by: Marco Minneman Michael Shack Chad Wackerman Band Dave Beck Gregg Bissonette Dom Famularo and Steve Smith. Disc 2 includes over 90 minutes of innovative workshop material: Steve Smith demonstrates the value of having a ‘Swing Technique’ as the foundation to one’s playing and more! Marco Minnermann demonstrates a series of ideas featuring some simple sticking patterns and coordination ideas through to interesting odd time phrases. Dom Famularoexplores the ‘Moeller Stroke’ and the idea of rebound in relation to matched grip open-handed style. Additional highlights include: Marco Minnemann bonus track Dom & Friends John Reynolds Raiders Drum Corps Drum & Percussion Expo Australia’s Best Up & Coming Drummer competition Finals Extra Interviews2002 & 2003 Festival Highlights Run Time: 5 hrs 45 min.

For a man who quit an established recording career in order to study the fine art of making violins David Bromberg sure knows how to work a room. A veteran sideman to Dylan Ringo Starr and Jerry Jeff Walker as well as a solo performer and bandleader of more than 40 years standing the bearded and bespectacled Bromberg may have kept a low profile through the so-called MTV era. But he didn't sleep through the more recent recording industry implosion and its attendant rise of the Pod People. Rather he took his boundary busting energy back to the live stage with the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank New Jersey playing a big role in this master entertainer's gameplan.The multi-instrumentalist and musicologist has made the Count Basie Theatre a crucial pit stop in his annual tour schedule for each of the last four years ... While Bromberg may take the spotlight for an unaccompanied number or two it's his role as bandleader and raconteur that prompted the New York Times to brand him 'electrifying.' A performance by the 12-piece David Bromberg Big Band fireballs forward like a bull in a used record shop tracing its own musical logic - Bob Wills to Bob Dylan to Bo Diddley to Dave Dudley - with station stops anywhere from Sam Cooke to 'a bluegrass tribute to Ethel Merman.' Not to mention some fondly remembered originals from his vintage albums and a lot of things that you thought had been written by the Grateful Dead Patsy Cline Cab Calloway or even the Clash.Titles include: Sloppy Drunk I'll Take You Back Dark Hollow Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor Who's Lovin' You Tonight This Love Affair Tongue It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry If You Don't Want Me Nobody's Sharon and Driving Wheel

Ari Eisinger is one of the most dazzling country blues and ragtime guitarists playing today. Listen to his astonishing performances of the music of Blind Blake and you will hear things no guitar player has managed to pull off since Blake himself disappeared in the early 1930s. The sportin' right hand the piano rhythms the notes everybody else leaves out - they're all there.'One of the finest fingerpickers I've heard anywhere ' 'One of the top guitarists in the country ' 'One of the finest interpreters of traditional blues and ragtime' - these are just a few of the reactions from critics and fellow musicians to Ari's remarkable way with the blues of the 1920s and '30s.Able to shift effortlessly from complex East Coast ragtime to the propulsive rhythm of the guitar evangelists to down-home Texas country blues Ari is one of the most authentic musicians you are ever likely to encounter.